questionText: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of removing the three month limit on backdated payments for child benefit.
answerText: Where no one has claimed Child Benefit, the government allows claims to be backdated three months. Three months backdating is already more generous than most other social security benefits. A more generous backdating would make it harder to verify evidenc...
heading: Child Benefit